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Word: dadalsm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marchers in the preliminary parade denied any political partiality, saying merely that they were dadaists. (Dadalsm was a bohemian movement in Germany and France in the 1920s which produced cubist art and specialized in nonsense.) The dadaists were applauded after the demonstration by the HLU, which credited them with bringing out a large crowd, and by the Conservative League, which was grateful for the Boston newspapers' mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STARRY-EYED AND VAGUELY DISCONTENTED" | 3/29/1946 | See Source »

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